On any day you’re reading the following; Every profession is dead. Small companies will be drowned out by Vibe Coded Apps Anyone writing code for more than 10 minutes is wasting their time. We are laying off people to make room to buy more machines. That’s a pretty bleary way to start your Monday morning as you try to get going for the week ahead. Everything isn’t dying, it’s changing. Vibe Coded Apps solve some…
The first 15 pages are the test. They might not be your speed – perhaps too fast, too chaotic, too slow – perhaps that’s the narrative of the story taking place, and they want you to feel that. But they are a test. If you can get through the first 15, the next 15 might be better, or maybe you’ll have enough knowledge to know that they aren’t as bad. Then, when you’re 150 pages…
When you’re learning something new, it’s the frustrations that make it worthwhile because when you break through, you realize just how far you have come. I use AI to help on the daily with tasks that I know, should know, and have worked through in the past. I went through those frustrations and learned how it worked behind the scenes so I could get to that point. If you haven’t gone through the frustrations, you…
It’s been over 5 years since Code Your Way Up came out. I get asked every now and again whether there will be a second edition, perhaps updated with the influences of AI and all that has changed along the way. The answer is no, when I look at the patterns, frameworks, and questions that were asked in that initial release, they still ring true today. Interesting, this is ChatGPT’s interpretation of the book. ✅…
If every decision were easy, we probably wouldn’t have a word for it. It would just be a thing that we do. Hard decisions aren’t easy, and when I look at people and teams I have worked with who have had to make them, I have always respected them for making those calls. Sitting at the table, making those hard decisions is never easy . Easy decisions are throwing someone under the bus; Hard decisions…